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Never till this year have we heard, or even suspected that our state was governed by lawless mobs.
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gutenberg.orgDavid Daggett: “Never till this year have we heard, or even suspected that our state was governed by lawless mobs.”
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Daggett expresses his disbelief at the notion that Connecticut was governed by lawless mobs until that year.
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The people swore eternal hatred to Monarchy, and eternal fidelity to Constitutions, till, heaven, weary of their perjuries, sent them a despot in his wrath.
If no benefits will result--if much evil will probably ensue--the course of duty and interest is plain.
On similar principles a wise people regard the conduct of other nations, and are solemnly admonished by their example.
But mark the issue --Not twelve years have elapsed before she has returned to an inglorious despotism--She has exchanged her Capets for a foreign usurper, with an incalculable loss, and here her history ends.
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